Example sentences of "to him on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 3 | He followed their swift line as together they swung low over the water and landed , the splash of their coming rippling softly back to him on the still air . |
| 4 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 5 | It was of no consequence ; Garland knew every step of the way and Mitch trotted ahead , pursuing an erratic course as he nosed out the rich odours brought to him on the moist air . |
| 6 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 7 | He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith . |
| 8 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |